A while back I was doing some community service work at Goodwill as part of a ticket dismissal agreement. While working there I was hit on by a sweet but rather gangly and slovenly looking gentleman also doing community service. He said he loved my smile and he thought I had a very pretty name. It was the first interest anyone had expressed in me since Mary and I broke up. And I wasn’t even looking.

He asked me out and I considered it for all of about 10 seconds. Hey, maybe all this time I’ve been looking for Ms. Right and I should have been looking for Mr. Right, I told myself. Besides, everyone gets a rebound, right?
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